PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The documentary Secret Mall Apartment is coming to Showcase Cinemas at the Providence Place Mall Friday. The film follows the true events from 2003, when eight Rhode Islanders secretly built and lived in an apartment inside the mall. It was complete with furniture, electricity and a locking brick wall.

While shopping malls have been hit with hard times due to the ease of online shopping, back around the turn of the 21st century, they were desirable places to go and hang out — so bustling and packed with people that,